They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

It's a special form of scholarly neurosis, ´ said Camel. 'He's no longer able to distinguish between life and literature.´

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.

I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

I can have different opinions with anybody. I can still be a friend with that person.

I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.

Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance.